From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#22692: 25.0.91; xref-find-definitions fails to prompt Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:59:48 +0200 Message-ID: <83r3g8r8qz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <23698.1455674128@allegro.localdomain> <56C71C1D.8010502@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455897689 10383 80.91.229.3 (19 Feb 2016 16:01:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:01:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 22692@debbugs.gnu.org, m.kupfer@acm.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 19 17:01:19 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aWnUa-0000Ri-4V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:01:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53369 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWnUW-0002dk-8R for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:01:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41122) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWnUQ-0002db-Om for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:01:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWnUM-0000Dj-RQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:01:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:37072) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWnUM-0000Dc-Nz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:01:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aWnUM-0003l2-Ht for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:01:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:01:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 22692 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 22692-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B22692.145589761314379 (code B ref 22692); Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:01:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 22692) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Feb 2016 16:00:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34199 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aWnTY-0003jq-M1 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:00:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49812) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aWnTV-0003iq-E0 for 22692@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:00:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWnTN-0008Kw-3h for 22692@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:00:04 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33489) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWnTN-0008Kr-0B; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:00:01 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3936 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aWnTM-0002mX-7R; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:00:00 -0500 In-reply-to: <56C71C1D.8010502@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:43:57 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:113303 Archived-At: > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:43:57 +0200 > Cc: 22692@debbugs.gnu.org > > Validating identifiers against the tags table is a sensible suggestion, It is a valid use case to try to find out whether a symbol already has some definition. In that case, saying "no definition" is what the user will expect for an undefined symbol, so asking for a symbol will confuse. > > Does "valid identifier" mean syntatically correct, or does it mean that > > the identifier is in the tags table. Please clarify the documentation. > > We probably should just remove the word "valid" from there. That depends on how you will change the behavior ;-)